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Old 01-25-2006, 06:24 PM
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heard about baking your headlights and then painting some parts black so it looks like the black house lights (EK) im looking for some more info on this b/c im thinking about doing it....already searched found nothing, need some help here
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SilverBulletEK &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">heard about baking your headlights and then painting some parts black so it looks like the black house lights (EK) im looking for some more info on this b/c im thinking about doing it....already searched found nothing, need some help here</TD></TR></TABLE>

you lie i typed in diy headlights and it returned 64 results try again please
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Default Re: Painting headlights? (Slow_CvC99)

1 Remove headlights.
2 Bake at 200*for about 5-10 min.
3 Pull lense off.
4 Take off the 2 phillips head screws that hold the chrome housing to the lense.
5 Remove turnsignal chrome piece.
6 Paint chrome housing.
7 Assemble in reverse order.
8 Seal edges with silicone.
Old 01-25-2006, 09:39 PM
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What ever you do... make sure its NOT on PREHEAT! IMO it would be better if you just used a blow dryer to take apart the lense.
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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1306951

hope this helps
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mugen112 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What ever you do... make sure its NOT on PREHEAT! IMO it would be better if you just used a blow dryer to take apart the lense.</TD></TR></TABLE>

a blower dryer?? A blow dryer doesnt even heat past 150 and if it did it'd take you a week to seperate. A heat gun would be a hard *** time.

stick witht he oven. Easy as pie
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i used a heat gun once... regreted it... took forever and some parts of the glue would dry as i was pulling it apart.. had to hold it with screwdrivers and stuff... PITA...

just bake them
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i agree....just use the oven...goes a lot faster..i did the same thing to mine and i was done within an hour and they look good.
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Default Re: Painting headlights? (Slow_CvC99)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Slow_CvC99 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you lie i typed in diy headlights and it returned 64 results try again please</TD></TR></TABLE>

"» No Results Found

Your search for DIY headlights returned no results.
Please try different search criteria or a different data set."
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Default Re: Painting headlights? (SilverBulletEK)

make sure you are selecting archived and not recently.
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I typed it in the search and it returned 67 results plus websites for directions....
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